Audio: IPPR's Carey Oppenheim on party conferences

"Stage-managed and choreographed" conferences attacked
"Stage-managed and choreographed" conferences attacked

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Listen to the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank's co-director Carey Oppenheim explains why she thinks party conferences need a major shakeup:

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